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Towards an analytical strategic environmental assessment: The ANSEA Network

Jiliberto, Rodrigo; Alvarez-Arenas, Manuel; García, … - 2002

-centred approach to the SEA process. The focus is to evaluate the decision-making process instead of the quantitative output of an …

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The effectiveness of provisions and quality of practices concerning public participation in the EIA procedures in Italy and the UK

DelFuria, Luca; Wallace-Jones, Jane - 1998

The Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure foresees that the information on the environmental effects of a … concluded that the effective involvement of the public serves to guarantee, at least in part, the effectiveness of the whole EIA … concerning public participation in the EIA procedure be improved, with specific reference to Italy and the UK? We start by …

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Optimal management in Tilmania: A competitive species assembly constrained by a limiting factor

Brock, William Allen; Xepapadeas, Anastasios P. - 1998

Resource-based models of species competition predict that when species compete for a limiting resource in a homogeneous habitat, then the equilibrium outcome is a monoculture with the species characterised by the lowest resource requirement outcompeting all the rest. We derive harvesting rules...

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Integrated coastal zone management in the Venice area: A methodological framework

Brochier, Frédéric; Giupponi, Carlo - 2001

Recent years have seen an increasing consensus on the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) principles and structure, and the widespread recognition of its effectiveness in dealing with multiples and interconnected coastal issues. A successful ICZM programme adjusted to a specific context...

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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension

Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013

. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments … investments. The report concludes with recommendations for making World Bank investments responsive to women's needs and rights. …

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness: Do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Aid, growth and devolution

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009

This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...

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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram - 2013

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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Achievements and Challenges: 30 Years of Housing Reforms in the People's Republic of China

Gao, Lu - 2010

In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively...

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Jointness of growth determinants

Doppelhofer, Gernot; Weeks, Melvyn - 2007

This paper introduces a new measure of dependence or jointness among explanatory variables. Jointness is based on the joint posterior distribution of variables over the model space, thereby taking model uncertainty into account. By looking beyond marginal measures of variable importance,...

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